Minor earthquake: M3.04 quake has struck near Ocotillo in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ocotillo in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.1884995 West, latitude 32.8603325 North, depth = 4.14 km. Event id: ci38998656. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38998656. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 02:37:40 / August 23, 2019 @ 2:37 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.14 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.04-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:37:40 / 6:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Mesa, La Presa, Spring Valley. Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from El Cajon (c. 99 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Tecate (c. 58 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Mesa (c. 57 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Santee (c. 53 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km NW of Ocotillo, CA.

CA El Cajon La Mesa La Presa Mexicali Mexico Ocotillo Santee Spring Valley Tecate United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.1884995° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.8603325° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km NW of Ocotillo, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-23 02:37:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-23 02:39:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	142	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ci	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	104	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1028	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci38998656	Id of event.
Event Code	38998656	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci38998656,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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